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Platform9 Introduces Multi-Region Support For VMware And KVM Private Clouds

Enterprise IT can now manage distributed data center infrastructure from a single pane of glass.

Platform9 has announced that Platform9 Managed OpenStack now gives enterprise IT the ability to segment and manage distributed data center "regions" from a single pane of glass. With this release, customers can define their own regions to reflect physical or logical boundaries. For example, data centers that are located in different geographical locations, support different teams, or run different hypervisors such as KVM and VMware, can be managed seamlessly within the same private cloud user interface.

"To ensure the performance of our solution, IDenTV has multiple data centers across the country, situated to optimize connectivity with media production sites. Managing this distributed infrastructure is challenging and puts a drain on our productivity," said Amro Shihadah, COO of IDenTV, maker of real-time video detection and analytics technology used in the advertising and intelligence sectors. "With its ability to define and manage distinct regions, Platform9 makes it seamless to manage our distributed infrastructure from a single interface, driving greater IT efficiency and supporting better service delivery for our business."

Platform9's new multi-region capability provides new and enhanced functionality for customers, supporting three common use cases in globally distributed enterprise data centers:

Geographically distributed infrastructure with dedicated storage and network infrastructure can now be aggregated into the same private cloud. Not only does IT benefit from improved visibility into their distributed infrastructure, but IT can also enable self-service access to end users across sites.

Multiple VMware vCenters can be easily managed within a single private cloud platform. Many large enterprise customers who use VMware vSphere deploy several vCenter servers to scale their virtualized infrastructure. All of this infrastructure can be managed by a single OpenStack private cloud, increasing automation and choice while reducing infrastructure costs.

Multiple hypervisors can be easily managed within a single private cloud platform, reducing IT's management overhead for mixed environments and giving cloud platform users a true single pane across hypervisor platforms. It also enables an easy migration path for VMware vSphere users looking to reduce virtualization licensing costs and mitigate vendor lock-in by moving their second-tier workloads to lower-cost KVM.

"Enterprise customers often struggle with the complexity of managing distributed infrastructure across geographies. Further, a growing number of organizations have a stated goal to reduce infrastructure costs by introducing a secondary hypervisor platform to their IT environment, creating yet another management challenge," said Madhura Maskasky, co-founder and vice president of product at Platform9. "Platform9 Managed OpenStack provides seamless management of multiple regions — which customers can define and segment in ways that make sense for their infrastructure and their business — enabling greater flexibility, efficiency and cost savings."

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With the number of edge sites on the rise, it’s critical for you to know what’s going on in the network at any given moment. However, it’s likely there are sites you have never visited. So, if you don’t know exactly what a site looks like, what security measures are in place, or even where it is located, how can you have true visibility into the physical environment? The answer is by having good sensors in place.

One Wilshire building in Los Angeles, one of the most densely connected buildings in the world, houses 450,000 square feet of data center. Organizing the organic growth of disparate cooling equipment was a major concern for its owners, who were working with the engineering team and manufacturers to increase the cooling capacity. The goal was to achieve 4000 tons of scalable cooling, with a target of 50% free cooling.
Learn from the experts who completed this project in 2018 — about how they achieved the basis of design for One Wilshire tenants and exceeded the energy efficiency goals of the project by 25%, which is 62 times the amount required by Title 24 in California.